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0 Isometric Drawing
4.1 What is Isometric drawing

An isometric drawing is a drawing of a three-dimensional shape on a two-dimensional surface along a vertical line with at least two identified points. All the horizontal lines of the image are created from the
predetermined vertical line at 30-degree angles. Isometric drawing makes two-dimensional figures to appear
in three dimensional.

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4.2 Rules of Isometric Drawing
There are three main rules to isometric drawing.
(i) horizontal. edges are drawn at 30 degrees.
(ii) vertical. edges are drawn as vertical lines.
(iii) parallel. Parallel lines never meet, no matter how far they are
extended. Edges appear as parallel lines.

4.3 Types of Isometric drawing

There are two common techniques generally used for isometric drawings. These are the box and the centerline layout techniques
but the box technique is the most common construction technique. The box technique is also known as the coordinate technique.

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4.4 Isometric Sketch Example
An example to draw the isometric sketching is given below.
Follow the steps given to draw an isometric sketch of an
8 × 3 × 3 cuboid. The same steps can be used to draw an
isometric sketch of a cube also.
•Step 1
To draw an isometric sketch of a cuboid with
dimension 8 × 3 × 3, take an isometric dot paper as shown below:

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• Step 2
To draw the front face, join 8 dots to form the length of the
cuboid and 3 adjacent dots to form its breadth as shown:

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• Step 3
From the corners of the rectangle drawn above,
draw 4 parallel line segments as shown below:

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 Step 4
oin the corners of the image together as shown below:

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• Step 5
According to the convention redraw the hidden edges as
dotted lines as shown:

This isometric sketch representing a cuboid of dimension

8 × 3 ×3. Thus, using an isometric dot sheet, we can draw three-
dimensional shapes of exact measurements or dimensions
without any ambiguity.
Thus, isometric sketches of different shapes can be drawn easily.
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Let us try to draw some isometric drawings using freehand

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4. 5 Practice Problems

Draw at least two of the

given isometric drawings
using instruments.